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In reply to the discussion: Here's What Happens When Someone Wants To Use YOUR "PUBLIC" INFO To INTIMIDATE YOU. [View all]SunSeeker
(52,000 posts)61. Much worse can happen. Ask Edward Teller's family.
Posting home addresses, etc. has long been an intimidation tactic of the anti-choice nutbags. It encourages the craziest among them to take these people out, like they did with abortion doctor Edward Teller, who was shot at his church.
This website you describe is the work of a private individual. It has nothing to do with NSA surveillance. There is no evidence secret "government data" was used for that website. It appears to be standard right wing intimidation tactics available to them in our open society.
Art Pope's intimidation efforts using the Civitas website is an important story, I appreciate the post. Sad you had to couch it with an anti-NSA gloss to get people to read it, but whatever works...
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Segami
Jul 2013
OP
K&R Someone will be here shortly to explain how it's all your (generic) fault because
idwiyo
Jul 2013
#1
I can only imagine what kind of dirt NSA has on politicians in France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain to
idwiyo
Jul 2013
#111
Or the open eyes of their authoritarian little buddies. You can see it happen here in DU. nm
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#33
I beleive it all starts with "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"
idwiyo
Jul 2013
#48
I'll be satisfied if these greedy bankers & war-mongering profiteers end up in prison!
Divernan
Jul 2013
#97
I always wondered where that word came from. Thank you for a very imformative post.
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#112
here's what i don'y get about that: the public paid for the public r&d that created the digital
HiPointDem
Jul 2013
#103
Under the First Amendment to our Constitution, we have the guaranteed right to petition the governme
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#90
Yeah, that and how one should martyr themselves and go to prison because that's what Real Patriot
idwiyo
Jul 2013
#102
Is there a way someone could start a website using those exact same photos to
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#32
If you can't stop them, then beat them at their own game, and we get to use their
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#113
Chilling. Giving these people power would be like going back to the fourteenth century.
lastlib
Jul 2013
#57
That is all public info available as required by open government laws the people demanded.
SunSeeker
Jul 2013
#69
Yes. And now that all that info is sitting in government or contracted-out-private company databanks
AllyCat
Jul 2013
#81
So all these people arrested should have their OTHER personal information available to the highest
AllyCat
Jul 2013
#107
NC's Budget Director did this; he is a Govt Official w/access to whatever he likes - collaboration
Melinda
Jul 2013
#100
I don't know if he accessed State held info or not, but I do know that Bossism is alive & well in NC
Melinda
Jul 2013
#116
Yes, it's all for the purpose of Corporate Persons who will use it without the oversight
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#43
Democrats only control the Senate. The repukes control the House of Representatives.
kestrel91316
Jul 2013
#53
This has nothing to do with NSA surveillance. There is no "Democratic control of two houses."
SunSeeker
Jul 2013
#58
I moved to NC a couple of years ago - it is indeed a cesspool of reaction and hate.
byeya
Jul 2013
#9
i didnt look through all of them, but i only saw public employee's salary listed nt
markiv
Jul 2013
#30
about 2 years ago there was a facebook hater who did some research on me via linked in and public
dembotoz
Jul 2013
#36
NC Budget Director has the time to bully every protestor. Art Pope= hateful, anti-usa.
Sunlei
Jul 2013
#37
Thank you, Segami. Privacy is important in maintaining personal and collective liberty. nt
Zorra
Jul 2013
#44
OK. Well please let it be known that if you call them to complain they will call you back.
WCLinolVir
Jul 2013
#66
big kr. i have seen similar things happen in employment situations. very dangerous stuff &
HiPointDem
Jul 2013
#89
knr... this is what can be done already with resources .. It is absurd to imagine that a vastly
Douglas Carpenter
Jul 2013
#94